Bill Polhemus writes: > I have wanted to set up a "spam trap" for some time. First, I created an > account, called "spamtest," on my system. Then, I went to Usenet and posted > a ton of "test" messages to every newsgroup I could think of (mostly the > pr0n ones) where the address would be harvested, and tried using the > Sendmail alias mentioned in the docs to take anything going to that address > and send it out to SA for processing. > > > > However, here is the error message I invariably get: > > > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > "| /usr/bin/spamassassin -r -w spamtest -l /var/spool/mail/spamtest" > > (reason: Service unavailable) > > (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > smrsh: "spamassassin" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) > > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > > > > > > So it looks like Sendmail isn't running as "privileged" (even though I > thought that was what "smrsh" was all about), and thus is not allowed to > invoke an instance of SA. Can someone help me out here?
It's definitely smrsh. Check the symbolic link in the smrsh dir... --j.
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